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F/A-18 was not a groupd up design as a naval fighter. F/A-18 was actually XF-17 and it competed with XF-16 for MRCA competition as USA wanted to arm itself and its allies with a powerful version of Multi role plane, that would be replacing F-5 in most of the air forces of NATO and USA allies...

So, we have money, and we can buy them, Pakistan does not have money, so you have to hitch rides on rich arab rides. Do remember, you can fly them, but yoiu cannot take them home..

Flying a plane does not really mean that one knows everything of it. During air shows. many top people fly some top planes, like potential buyers, or dignitaries. but that does not mean that they know everything about it. Also though Qatar Rafales might be similar to IAF Rafales, there are many...

They are only missing SAAB Gripen, Eurofighter and F/A-18 and then they can have their own private regular evaluation.

I dout the Argentines would agree to that mate. During Falkland wars, the French did not deliver the Exocet missiles as ordered prior by Argentina..So you might want to look back at your statement and edit it..

True, Dassault top brass are idiots of the highest levels. The MMRCA was made in such a way that the govt has to discuss with L1 only, if the discussions with L1 get stalled there was no option to discuss with L2. Dassault tried to put various conditions and objections like,, we cannot accept...

IAF does call most deals game changer for that matter. IAF does not have to deal with the budgets etc, and if given a free hand, they would order 400 Rafales without worrying about costs etc,,, its not their look out. Unfortunately the govt has to manage that. IAF is known for that, specially...

Not really, then actually it would be business "as usual" with kickbacks included... thats what INC is known for .

I think they are trying to get some funds from Dassault, its like saying.. when we are in power,, we shall select Rafale outright, and for what we need some token now for the 2019 elections ... "

If you actually notice, RaGa is following the same methodology as Trump, When cornered about something he will come up with "whataboutism" So when asked about the result of Mallya coming back, he resorted to "what about Rafale scam "

In which country are the judges of supreme court expected to be with thorough knowledge of Technology and Military matters?

And to add that when Christian Michel starts to sing, thre are going to be a lot of hues and cries about how can the word of mouth of foreigner be taken... as that could seriously damage congress.. similar to bofors

In France do they make a plane fully operational for combat before FOC? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Some members have many times asked you for links mainly from OEMS and you have simply not replied to those requests...

When the deal is sgned, there are no options as part of the deal. its just 36

xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The first plane will be arriving by Sept 2019, but these wont have ISE nor FOC in India. So after the entire 36 planes arrive in India then the ISE will be implemented in India and testing done for FOC. So roughly by 2023 the 36 Rafales...

As per general information The ISEs will be implemented in India after the arrival of Rafales, and this will make the Indian Rafale operational ready by 2022

Well the Magic no of 114 that you are making and adding 36 already rafales make it 150? thats what you are trying to say? Numerology, wonderful 36 is for 2 Squadrons of 18 planes each which is what IAF uses. I do believe you are aware that during MMRCA IAF wanted planes to rein in squadron...

So long as F-35 is able to get to its target undetected (which basically as you said) it can, isnt that enough for it to destroy a few targets? Your calculations.. nice, So let us say that Indian Rafale is flying towards Islamabad from delhi, you mean to say that PAF will only have radars of...

OK, F-35 is VLO, with an RCS of 0.005 m squared. and with RCS of 1 m squared you would call Rafale a stealth? And this is about Clean config. Now during fight, F-35 has the liberty to put its war load in internal bays thus keeping its RCS same, but Rafale has to put its load externally..guess...

BTW Rafale RCS as peddled mostly is from frontal and not all aspect.. So you expect the enemy radars to always try and look from one angle only? Further more, you talk of F4??? you are naive... F4 is still a concept,. F3R is being implemented Indian Rafales are supposed to be of F3R standards...